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Drug detention centers rarely provide treatment that meets these standards. Depending on the country, so-called rehabilitation consists of a regime of military drills, forced labor, psychological and moral re-education, and shackling, caning, and beating. Even people who voluntarily seek treatment…

This statement by the International Doctors for Healthy Drug Policies (IDHDP) was published in support of the Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. IDHDP's mission to bring to the international level an informed, science-based discussion about humane and effective ways to reduce the…

This campaign consists of short videos of people who have been saved by naloxone, or who have used naloxone to save someone's life. These videos will be used to raise awareness about naloxone and to send to the United Nations to urge the acceptance of global naloxone distribution.

The successful candidate will have highly developed advocacy skills and a strong track record in policy analysis with an ability to operate at a high level of international affairs. The successful candidate will join a small but high-functioning team at the IDPC Secretariat and must be a team…

On 22nd June, the Bolivian House of Representatives approved a bill to denounce the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, in an effort to protect the traditional right of Bolivian people to chew coca leaves. Read more information, in Spanish.

To mark the 40 years of US President Nixon's war ond rugs, IDPC and 74 Latin American groups call for a new focus in drug policies that encompasses social development, education, universal healthcare, and human rights and fundamental freedom.

The UK Sentencing Council initiated a consultation process in order to produce definitive sentencing guidelines for drugs offences for the UK in the coming year. The IDPC submission to the Sentencing Council focused on three issues: the need to make a clear distinction between different actors…

The Irish Press Ombudsman made a historic decision on 12th June, deciding in favour of a coalition of national and international drug services against the Irish Independent for a column by Ian O’Doherty which described drug users as “vermin”, “feral, worthless scumbags” and proclaimed that “if…

In this joint statement, GBCHealth and the Global Commission on Drug Policy call for a new approach to drug policy that prioritises public health and human rights, and facilitates the scaling up of effective HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care.

More than 3000 people came together at the United Nations in New York for the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS in June to take stock of the progress and challenges of the last 30 years and shape the future AIDS response. In this Political Declaration, countries agreed to advance…

The National Rehabilitation Centre in Abu Dhabi (NRC) and UNODC are collaborating to review the framework and objectives of an assessment study on the current drug policy situation in the United Arab Emirates, which will lead to a review of the country's anti-drug strategy.

Although broadening drug control cooperation beyond the traditional top-down bilateral focus is often viable and preferable, ironically, the current trilateral draft agreement overlooks existing successful multilateral collaboration and could provoke and deepen divisions.

Over 200 leading international NGOs have backed the Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use calling on world leaders to scale up harm reduction programmes that address the role of injecting drug use in the AIDS epidemic.

Sinaloa and Juarez cartels are fighting for the city and the access it provides to the multi-billion dollar US drug market only a few hundred metres away. On this episode of Fault Lines, Josh Rushing travels to Ciudad Juarez, and asks how human life there came to be worth so much less than the …

The Philippines is well-known for exporting domestic workers across the world, but as low-income jobs disappear in the global recession, increasing numbers of desperate Filipinos are resorting to something much more dangerous – smuggling drugs as mules.

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